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Jury for the 2019 APEX awards announced

Drawn from strategy, digital, creative, research, media, marketing as well as agency heads, the 2019 APEX award adjudication panel consists of highly regarded individuals and industry trail blazers. The group is tasked with the significant responsibility of combing through entries to identify and award the ‘work thatworks’.

Since inception by the ACA in 1995, the APEX Award has been the profession’s highest – and only – award for communications campaign performance excellence in an industry that is constantly refining and redefining creativity. The jury will be screening entries for campaigns that rose above the clutter, had extensive reach and communicated via mediums that delivered on campaign objectives. The rigorous adjudication process spans three rounds during which submissions are judged against specific criteria including rigour, degree of difficulty, clarity of evidence, compelling case, and insight.

“Winning an APEX award delivers evidence of the profession’s contribution to business success. It reinforces the value we provide as an industry and affirms our contribution within the context of the broader economy. This heavyweight adjudication panel is entrusted with identifying and bringing to the fore thosecampaigns that truly delivered on brand objectives and impacted the bottom line,” says Mathe Okaba, CEO of the Association of Communications and Advertising (ACA)

Apart from being an essential business tool that affixes value to credentials for agencies, marketers and leading brands, winning an APEX award is a definitive demonstration that great ideas generate great results. APEX recognises the creative work that worked; the campaigns that manifested effectiveness increativity that extends beyond words and pictures to creative intellect and intellectual property that is the currency of the profession.

The 2019 APEX awards is proudly hosted by the ACA with Key Partner Provantage Media Group and sponsors Kantar and Vodacom.

The 2019 APEX awards jury

JUDGE

DESIGNATION

COMPANY

Moroke Chief

Executive Officer

Kantar, Insights Division

Gareth Leck

Group Chief Executive Officer

Joe Public United

Mathe Okaba

Chief Executive Officer

ACA

Ana Carrapichano

Group Managing Director

Mediology

Daniel Naidoo

Director

Gendel Interactive

Fran Luckin

Executive Creative Director

Grey SA

Ismail Jooma

Head of Strategy

VML

Jason Harrison

Managing Director

M&C Saatchi Abel

Kagiso Musi

Group Managing Director

Meta Media

Katlego Moutlana

Head of Strategy

Mortimer Harvey

Leigh Tayler

Strategic Director

Joe Public United

Lwandile Qokweni

Chief Strategic Officer

MEC Global

Mick Blore

Chief Executive Officer

Wolves

Natalie Botha

Creative Development Director

Kantar, Insights Division

Neil Higgs

Independent Consultant

Retired ex TNS Global

Refilwe Maluleke

Managing Director

Yellowwood

Roxy Maqache

Chief Executive Officer

Desert Arabia

Su-Lise Tessendorf

General Manager: Brand, Strat & Comms

Nando’s

Thabang Skwambane

Managing Director

FCB, Johannesburg

Thulani Sibeko

Chief Marketing Officer

Standard Bank

Tlalane Ntuli

Chief Operations Officer

Yalu SA

Zayd Abrahams

Head of Brand

FNB

Winners will be announced at the APEX awards Gala Dinner to be held at The Venue @ The Houghton Hotel on the 11 th July 2019.

Connect with the ACA on Facebook at ACASouthAfrica and on Twitter @ACA_SA for regular updates on #APEXawards2019

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About the APEX awardsThe annual APEX Awards is hosted by the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) which is the recognised industry body of the advertising and communications sector of South Africa. APEX recognises and celebrates communications campaigns’ performance excellence by contributing tangibly client’s business and bottom line. Winning an APEX places a real seal on a client and agency team’s achievement because it demonstrates the contribution made by the team through its collaboration and work. Entry into the prestigious APEX Awards is exclusive to agencies that are members the ACA and their clients.

For more information about the APEX awards visit www.acasa.co.za/apex.aspx or call the ACA on (011) 781 2772/3.

The ACA is the official, representative body for the Communications and Advertising profession in South Africa, representing agencies in the profession (who at present contribute approximately 95% of South Africa’s measured ad spend) to government, media and the public. The ACA is a voluntary body formed by and for the industry, focused on and committed to self-regulation and to defending the highest standards of ethical practice.

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